Power dissipation for systems with junctions of multiple quantum wires

Details Power dissipation for systems with junctions of multiple quantum wires Power dissipation for systems with junctions of multiple quantum wires

2009-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/0907.5073v2

Phys. Rev. B 81, 035324 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

9 pages, 4 figures; made several minor changes; this is the published version

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We study power dissipation for systems of multiple quantum wires meeting at a junction, in terms of a current splitting matrix (M) describing the junction. We present a unified framework for studying dissipation for wires with either interacting electrons (i.e., Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid wires with Fermi liquid leads) or non-interacting electrons. We show that for a given matrix M, the eigenvalues of M^T M characterize the dissipation, and the eigenvectors identify the combinations of bias voltages which need to be applied to the different wires in order to maximize the dissipation associated with the junction. We use our analysis to propose and study some microscopic models of a dissipative junction which employ the edge states of a quantum Hall liquid. These models realize some specific forms of the M-matrix whose entries depends on the tunneling amplitudes between the different edges.

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